{"id":167,"date":"2009-06-17T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2010-06-17T23:05:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:05:30","slug":"i-am-going-to-find-acceptance-if-it-kills-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/i-am-going-to-find-acceptance-if-it-kills-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I am going to find acceptance if it kills me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am inching forward to being &#8220;okay&#8221; with where Benjamin and I are at right now.\u00a0 I still have my kicking and screaming days- just yesterday- I threw a mini tantrum\u00a0 on a walk with my girls-\u00a0 just yelling &#8220;life is NOT fair&#8221;.\u00a0 I really let Life have it- a few good cuss words and a few loud screams\u00a0 got me to a place of peace for a little while.\u00a0 sometimes the way to peace is through a good scream!<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is doing much better than I am.\u00a0 Sure, he is a little confused why we turn around after our 5 minute walk.\u00a0 Sure, he is looking at me with a &#8220;why&#8221; look when I leave with the girls and not him on our evening walks.\u00a0 But allin all-\u00a0 what he is missing in walks, he is getting tenfold in love, brushing, kong treats, doggy massage, acupressure and good conversation!\u00a0 This restricted exercise will last minimum 8 weeks\u00a0 ( we are in week 3) and I actually think I may survive it without too many more tantrums.\u00a0 Once again, I am learning acceptance from the master-\u00a0 Benjamin.\u00a0 Right at this moment- while I am thinking how I wish he could come with me and the girls, he is busy\u00a0 chewing his pig hoof stuffed with Tripe, not a care in the world, filled\u00a0 up with love and bliss.\u00a0 That&#8217;s my boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am inching forward to being &#8220;okay&#8221; with where Benjamin and I are at right now.\u00a0 I still have my kicking and screaming days- just yesterday- I threw a mini tantrum\u00a0 on a walk with my girls-\u00a0 just yelling &#8220;life is NOT fair&#8221;.\u00a0 I really let Life have it- a few good cuss words and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/i-am-going-to-find-acceptance-if-it-kills-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am going to find acceptance if it kills me!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/causeandeffectdogtraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}